Nichola Raihani

Dr Nichola Raihani

Research Fellow

Organisation

University College London

Research summary

I work at the interface between evolutionary biology, economics and psychology to identify the mechanisms underpinning cooperation among unrelated individuals. My research addresses the following sort of questions:

how do reputation effects promote helping behaviour?

does punishment promote cooperation and, if so, when?

are punishers ever liked, or preferred as interaction partners?

why do humans help strangers?

I also work as a behavioural insights consultant to several public and private sector companies. I provide evolutionarily informed insights into how organisations can 'nudge' people to behave prosocially in different contexts.